> Attached to this email is chomp.pl, a Perl script which removes trailing> whitespace from several files. I've had this for years, as trailing whitespace> is one of my pet peeves.>> Now that git-applymbox complains loudly whenever a patch adds trailing> whitespace, I figured this script may be useful to others.>

Pretty long script. How about this two-liner? It does not show 'bytes chomped' but it also trims trailing whitespace.